Happy Birthday... ME! 2013

Birthday shenanigans occurred yesterday, a whole lot of them. Firstly, I got up pretty early, standard for Birthday Theo. I get very restless within 24 hours of my big day because I'm so excited! Went down into the living room to see this haul on the sofa.

oooooh yes

So as you can imagine, I was very eager to just tear into that pile. But I took myself aside and said "Look mate, you're 20 now, you can wait until your friends are up to open your presents." So I waited a few hours for Jamie to eventually get up, Judge Judy kept me entertained for most of my morning. Treated ourselves to a very nice lunch of a home-made meatball subs!

Yummy yummy

 And then we saw a fox napping in the garden!

The ginger blob behind the patio furniture!

 And later on a few friends came down from Newbury to say Happy Birthday and take me to Wetherspoons for dinner and some pints. Jamie and Lucy had to leave us there though in order to grab some more cash but never met back up with us; after a few more drinks though I admittedly failed to notice their absence.

 It wasn't until we got home I noticed something different about our house through the door window... like the candle lit trail into the living room, the strange bloke with a beaky cane and the ominous music that sounded like a mystical quest would begin. This may sound like the alcohol was talking but I assure you this really happened.

A few months back we found a copy of 'Raven: the DVD Adventure' in a charity shop for a quid. Jokingly we decided to make a drinking game out of it after a dry run that was just hilarious due to the atrocious quality of the game. For anyone who is unaware, Raven was a childrens TV game show on CBBC, it featured a Scottish man ferrying along adventurers from one test to the next. Here's a promo featuring the host.

So you can imagine my delighted, confused, (and somewhat inebriated) surprise when I found this in my living room.

Jamie Creed ladies and gentleman

So we played a proper round of the crappy DVD game and it was glorious. We found out the hard way that in the Raven DVD drinking game, there are no winners. But we had a hell of an evening.

The spread

 Special thanks to everybody who was there or who wished me a happy birthday, it was a pleasure to spend the occasion with my dearest friends after 20 long years.